Re: [PATCH] i2c: sun6i-pw2i: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue Aug 17 2021 - 15:36:36 EST


On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 06:58:59PM +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed the
> destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to linear
> read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The safe
> replacement is strscpy().
>
> This is a previous step in the path to remove the strlcpy() function
> entirely from the kernel [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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